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TOBACCO EFFORTS LOWER HEALTH COSTS

California's tobacco prevention program saved $134 billion in health care costs over the past two decades, according to a study published Wednesday. California spent about $2.4 billion from 1989 through 2008 to buy billboards and TV time for ads against smoking, as well as promoting smoke-free environments and tobacco cessation programs. The UC San Francisco study found that for every dollar spent, health care costs dropped by about $56. Researchers attribute the savings to lower spending on health care due to people quitting or not starting, and those who do smoke consuming fewer cigarettes each day.

Pilot dies after plane loses wing

The pilot of a small plane was killed after it lost a wing and spiraled into a crash just feet from a freeway in Winters, about 30 miles west of Sacramento. The body of the plane, an experimental Avions Fairey Tipsy Nipper T-66, hit 30 feet to the side of Interstate 505. The wing landed in the center divider.

DEPUTIES FIND DOZENS OF WEAPONS IN CAVE

Authorities seized 111 firearms, at least 20 of them stolen, from a 55-acre Humboldt County property where they also found 117 pounds of dried marijuana, ammunition, body armor and $12,000 in cash, the Sheriff's Department said. Deputies found the bulk of the weapons in a brush-covered cave, sheriff's Lt. Steve Knight said. Among them were a World War II-era machine gun with a full belt of ammunition, semi-automatic handguns and Soviet semi-automatic assault rifles.

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